Brighton Photographer Scott Hortop. Streets, landscapes, music, and the photography of people who inhabit these scenes.

Saturday, 6 December 2014

Live music - our gigging at the Drill Festival, Brighton

I've had a bit of a break from the Brighton music scene jn the last month or so but I wanted to get in some new bands before the end of this year and my new music afficionado Jon was heading to the Friday evening of the Drill Festival. With wristband admission to multiple venues I managed four bands at three venues ....

Bad Breeding at Audio

Sauna Youth at The Green Door Store

Lonelady at Concorde 2

All female band Savages live at Concorde 2

Savages adventuring into the audience at Concorde 2

Savages live at Concorde 2

All female band Savages live at Concorde 2

I really enjoyed Savages.A great stage presence and powerful and tight sound.

This was the first outing for my new camera, a Fujifilm XE-2, and, to make it all more of an adventure, it was sporting a manual focus Pentax 50mm f1.7 lens which was easy enough to focus except for Savages where the particular back lighting from the stage made it all pretty tricky. I used that lens all night and it should have been the only one I took with me because I stuck with it because I was happy with the way it was working. I had however started the evening with a little Fujifilm 27mm autofocus lens - which I lost - I must have left it on the seating in Audio after changing it at the very start of the evening. Sadly no joy in calling the venue to see if somebody had handed in in.

About Me

I'm a Brighton based professional photographer, at a crossroads on whether I really am that any more.. To earn a living in commercial photography I took unposed photos of real people doing stuff in real situations, that same skill helping me to be a dab hand at parties.

But now photography is less to do with making a living and more about art. Using the skills I acquired, I hit the streets and try and get as close as I can to my human subject without getting attacked. The landscape gets my attention too. And I shoot film - medium format and 35mm in an assortment of Pentax cameras, developing monochrome myself which keeps me rooted...

I also simply get out to take photos for stock. You'll find my images at Alamy, iStock and Getty Images. And at my own website - all linked from this page.

I have a dislike for corporate headshots, studio work, 'glamour', brown nosing and 4x4s. I'm also not particularly interested in equipment or techniques. Especially HDR, unless you can't tell it's there in your images in which case there's no need to mention it. Please.